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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : ffmpeg vulnerabilities (USN-1209-1)
high Nessus Plugin ID 56236
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed ogg files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted ogg file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.10.(CVE-2011-1196)
It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed AMV files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted AMV file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.10.
(CVE-2011-1931)
It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed APE files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted APE file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash.
(CVE-2011-2161)
Emmanouel Kellinis discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed CAVS files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted CAVS file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2011-3362).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected libavcodec52 and / or libavformat52 packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 56236
File Name: ubuntu_USN-1209-1.nasl
Version: 1.8
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 9/20/2011
Updated: 9/19/2019
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.3
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavcodec52, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libavformat52, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 9/19/2011
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/10/2011
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-1196, CVE-2011-1931, CVE-2011-2161, CVE-2011-3362
USN: 1209-1